To solve the problems facing our planetary home, we need public trust. For that, we need #openscience. Don't just #MarchForScience...#MarchForBetterScience!
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"Politicians! #Listentothescientists and take #climateaction!"
"And scientists! #Listentothepeople and #openscience!"
#grevepourleclimat et #scienceouverte... même combat!
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Now is an exciting time to be preparing a new open publishing platform (nmop.io). Feels like there's something in the air. We're finally reaching breaking point with big commercial publishers. 🎉
Hoping to start building it in earnest some time this year. 🤞
Neuroscientists shunning Elsevier, and Political Philosophers abandoning Wiley.
Is the big 5 commercial publishing house of cards about to collapse?
Where’s the free labour going to come from now? AI editors and reviewers?
#EthicalPublishing
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A short argument for why I think the big publishers cannot be part of a publishing reform effort. See the full (but still short) article over on Mastodon at neuromatch.social/@neuralrec… or below for a short summary.
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It's time to leverage the billions taxpayers give to government research for public use. Enter #DemocracysLibrary blog.archive.org/2022/10/19/…
Are we allowed be excited?
Yes.
We believe
💎 Everyone should be able to read and publish research for free
🌍 Research publishing should be commonly owned and run, not for profit
🔢 All data should be open and re-usable
We are delighted to announce a new open publishing initiative
nmop.io
ALT neuromatch open publishing logo
Read and approved. Calling on all signatories of #NoFeeScience to read and add their voices to this appeal from @neuromatch.
Scholars in all disciplines & countries, we invite you to sign this open letter to @WHOSTP calling for equitable access & participation in research for all
Why we think you should sign
ostp-letter.github.io/why.ht…
Or go straight to the letter
ostp-letter.github.io
#OSTPLetter
And yet we still see regular 'good news' tweets like this from academics:
"Happy to say Wiley have just agreed to take my research hostage! Watch this space to find out when and how you can pay off part of its ever-increasing, ever-altering ransom!"
In June my library was told that Wiley would be removing 1,379 ebooks from our subscription packages. Because many of these books were heavily used, we looked into purchasing them with perpetual access but were told they were considered textbooks. #librarians 1/2
"Dear Author,
Why not celebrate your latest contribution to Springer Nature's ongoing shakedown of academia with this ungainly memento?
Springer Nature: Come for the over-priced prestige, stay for the over-priced tat!"
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of for-profit publishers is that good researchers do nothing."
- Popular proverb (paraphrased).
No Fee Science retweeted
I am excited to announce the launch of Aletheia, a new platform for communicating peer-evaluated research. My collaborator on this project is @JakeJares. aletheia-platform.netlify.ap… 1/14
Clipping the wings of talent and hoodwinking true vision for over 50 years.
High time for science to leave this particular building...
#Elvis
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Upset by the email send by @frontiersin entitled "Join Dr. Jonathan P. Tennant at Frontiers in Environmental Science as Associate Editor"
Very inappropriate!!!
RIP @Protohedgehog
cc @Rebeccatennan10
Good.
Now we can shift our focus to moving away from the profit-driven academic publishing model altogether. Open Access is just one (important) step along the way, but by itself it won't even make a dent in the amount of public money being siphoned off into private profit.
BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
We underestimate the damning indictment of the scientific enterprise that is incarnated in the existence of paywalls (still omnipresent during any literature research activity, layperson or academic).
#NoFeeScience
#MarchForBetterScience
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As we highlighted 2 yrs ago, many climate science studies are also locked behind paywalls, which is ultimately of much greater urgency than monkeypox *even if* worst predictions of latter transpire.
Current model of publication is immoral, full stop.
science.org/content/article/…
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“I pledge to the greatest of my ability, to continue to maintain integrity in my relationship to knowledge, to my methods & to my results*.”
*which are the collective fruit & shared intellectual property of all humanity
(if we could add one little thing!)
science.org/content/article/…
Pendant que l'Europe crame, un retour opportun vers notre texte chez @Reporterre de 2019, où nous avons souligné le décalage entre ce que la communauté scientifique doit à l'humanité et ce qu'elle lui demande à l'égard du climat :
reporterre.net/Face-au-recha…
“I pledge to the greatest of my ability, to continue to maintain integrity in my relationship to knowledge, to my methods & to my results*.”
*which are the collective fruit & shared intellectual property of all humanity
(if we could add one little thing!)
science.org/content/article/…
Speaking of funding: it takes €9,500 of additional funding (often public) to make a study (often wholly or in part publicly funded) in @naturehumbehav open to public use.
See thread linked in next tweet to learn more about how this journal exploited human behavior for profit 1/2
🚨🚨Excited to share our latest paper
@NatureHumBehav: Public use and public funding of science nature.com/articles/s41562-0…, in collaboration with @ericdongyx @kuansanw @dashunwang @bfjo
